Sao Paulo: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Brasil Arquitetura

• Location

  São Paulo, São Paulo State, Brazil

• Category

  Pavillion

• Authors

  Francisco Fanucci, Marcelo Ferraz and Cicero Ferraz Cruz

• Area

  440.0 m2

• Project Year

  2004

• Photographs

  Daniel Ducci

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• Architects

  SuperLimão Studio

• Location

  Praça Da República - Praça da República - República, São Paulo - SP, 01045-000, Brazil

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Design Team

  Lula Gouveia, Thiago Rodrigues, Antonio Carlos Figueira de Mello, Inaia Botura

• Area

  50.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Escanhuela Photo

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• Architects

  Bacco Arquitetos Associados

• Location

  Clube Pinheiros, Av. Brig. Faria Lima, 2413 - Jardins, São Paulo - SP, Brazil

• Category

  Bar

• Area

  560.0 m2

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Ana Mello

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• Architect

  GOAA

• Location

  São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Lead Architect

  Guido Otero, Ricardo Gusmão

• Collaborators

  Felipe Barradas, Murilo Zidan

• Area

  180.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Pedro Kok

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• Architects

  Alexandre Dal Fabbro

• Location

  São Paulo, Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Lead Architect

  Alexandre Dal Fabbro

• Area

  450.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Salvador Cordaro

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• Architects

  Atelier Branco Arquitetura

• Location

  São Paulo (SP), Brazil

• Category

  Restaurant

• Arquitetos Responsáveis

  Matteo Arnone e Pep Pons

• Area

  914.9 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Pedro Kok

• Architects

  Zoom Urbanismo, Arquitetura e Design

• Location

  São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Houses

• Design Team

  Guilherme Ortenblad, Kathleen Chiang, Mariane Takahashi Christovam, Ana Carolina de Lima, Mariana Poli Gortan, Rosa Clara Alves e Karin Kussaba.

• Area

  4843.76 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Maíra Acayaba

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• Architects

  Chico Barros, Garoa

• Location

  Sumaré, Brazil

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architects

  Alexandre Gervásio, Erico Botteselli, Lucas Thomé, Pedro de Bona, Chico Barros

• Area

  2045.14 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Pedro Napolitano Prata

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• Architects

  aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

• Location

  Marginal Pinheiros, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

• Category

  Residential

• Directors

  Luis Felipe Aflalo, Roberto Aflalo, Grazzieli Gomes e José Luiz Lemos

• Project Team

  Mariana Ginesi, Bruno Taiar,Beatriz Baffi, Ana Carolina Aipp, George Ferreira, Renata Lopes, Paulo Massao, Daniel Doatti, Eduardo Mizuka, Reginaldo Okusako, Daniela Mungai, Juliana Baldocchi, Marcelo Nagai, Reinaldo Sigueta e Raquel Rodrigo

• Area

  95402.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Ana Mello

Everyday, the theme of the XII International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, Brazil, proposed by the curators Vanessa Grossman, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Ciro Miguel, seeks to reveal architecture and space through everyday life. Architects and urban planners have long aspired to design total environments, civilizations, even the planet. However, in the current climate of political and economic uncertainty, occurring against the backdrop of unprecedented environmental impacts wrought by rapid technological development, design professionals have begun to acknowledge the vulnerability of their work to global transformations and the challenges of an automated future.

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• Architects

  Pascali Semerdjian arquitetos

• Location

  São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Houses

• Responsible Architects

  Sarkis Semerdjian , Domingos Pascali

• Team

  Sarkis Semerdjian , Domingos Pascali, Roberta Brain, Linda Mattoli, Leopoldo Schettino

• Area

  411.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Ricardo Bassetti

This article was originally published on August 14, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

When Lina Bo Bardi received the commission to build a new museum of art on São Paulo’s Terraço do Trianon, she was given the job under one condition: under no circumstances could the building block the site’s panoramic vistas of the lower-lying parts of the city. This rule, instituted by the local legislature, sought to protect what had become an important urban gathering space along Avenida Paulista, the city’s main financial and cultural artery. Undeterred, Bo Bardi came up with a solution that was simple and powerful. She designed a building with a massive split through its midsection, burying half of it below the terrace and lifting the other half into the sky. As a result, the plaza remained open and unobstructed, and in 1968, the iconic São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) was born.

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• Architects

  Pascali Semerdjian arquitetos

• Location

  São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Apartments

• Architect in charge

  Domingos Pascali, Sarkis Semerdjian

• Team

  Fábio Rudnik

• Area

  70.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Ricardo Bassetti

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• Architects

  Lair Reis, Studio Mk27 - Marcio Kogan

• Location

  São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Houses Interiors

• Team

  Anna Helena Villela, Beatriz Meyer, Carlos Costa, Laura Guedes, Luciana Antunes, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano

• Interiors

  Claudia Issa

• Area

  827.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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• Architects

  Gabriela Coelho, SuperLimão Studio

• Location

  São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Gallery

• Team

  Gabriela Coelho, Antonio Carlos Figueira de Mello, Lula Gouveia e Thiago Rodrigues, Julia Seródio, Pedro Luna, Renato Assada, Juliana Marcato

• Area

  1800.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Maíra Acayaba

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• Architects

  Casa14 Arquitetura

• Location

  São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

• Category

  Housing

• Architect in Charge

  Mariana Andersen e Mariana Guradani (Casa14 partners)

• Other Participants

  Max Heringer and Gabriele Azevedo

• Area

  900.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Maira Acayaba

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• Architects

  MM18 Arquitetura

• Location

  Aeroporto internacional de Guarulhos – São Paulo, Brasil

• Category

  Extension

• Architects in Charge

  Marcos Paulo Caldeira, Mila Strauss, Larissa Burke, Fabiane Sakai, Thiago Buccieri

• Area

  3950.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Pedro Vannucchi

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• Architects

  Basiches Arquitetos Associados

• Location

  Alameda Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, 1522 - Jardim America, São Paulo - SP, 01442-002, Brazil

• Category

  Store

• Authors

  José Ricardo Basiches, Ronaldo Shinohara

• Area

  362.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Fran Parente